A sea-faring nation, Britain produced films of its fishermen and islanders as either documentaries or dramas shot on location and mixing professionals and locals. In 1937, in response to Flaherty’s Man of Aran, writer-director Michael Powell shaped a story of the poverty and dangers of life on the island of Foula. He returned to the island in 1978 with some of the original actors and shot a 20-minute documentary, as both prologue and epilogue, which is as personally meaningful to the filmmaker as to the survivors among the islanders. Thus a fiction film made in frustrated reaction to a famous documentary is later incorporated within a new documentary, all focusing on the tough truths of north islanders. It doesn’t get more hybrid than this!